smokel

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by smokel 2mo ago
Yes there is, at least to me. The reason being total freedom to tune the operating system, and not being limited to what someone imagined I would want to do in the future.
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by smokel 2mo ago
Perhaps add "A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring" to the title?
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by smokel 2mo ago
That would be the 1980s approach. I would be more interested in being able to read an email and then say something along the lines of: in context/mail: when today/evening: if content excites me: send alert
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by smokel 2mo ago
It's somewhat unfortunate that programming is still pretty hard to start with. Early home computers would boot up with BASIC. Granted, the user experience was horrible, but at least you could start programming right away. What is stop
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by smokel 2mo ago
I think that credit might go to IBM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon
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by smokel 3mo ago
> If you want a good one you'd have to set up your own and aggressively curate it Expect a community library with only books on homotopy type theory and quantum computing soon!
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by smokel 3mo ago
Most of the books in these community libraries are really crappy. I would assume that people: a. Toss out books at home they don't like and bring them to these libraries b. Take interesting books from the libraries, and leave the bad
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by smokel 3mo ago
In the 1990s "Object-Oriented Ontology" was introduced by Graham Harman [1]. The name was borrowed from computing, but its meaning has little or nothing to do with Simula or Smalltalk. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by smokel 3mo ago
> Frivolous use of the term World Model The term "world model" as it was once used in model-based RL can now apparently refer to anything as silly as linear regression. Then again, the RL folks probably borrowed the term fro
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by smokel 3mo ago
This article focuses mostly on point forecasting . There are many other things that are interesting to forecast. Consider for example the use case of forecasting the average speed on a road segment with a maximum speed of 70mph. Forecast
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by smokel 3mo ago
I'm looking at GoPro packaging here that says "Made in Thailand".
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by smokel 3mo ago
Lean is the Mizar here. For those who have no clue what this is about, Mizar [1] was an early automated theorem prover. Can't wait for HN to add AI features to explain concepts in the sideline, and autovoting. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by smokel 3mo ago
> I’d buy these. Say $100 for a frontier class model. Maybe more. Sure you would. Running frontier class models on current hardware costs in the order of tens of thousands of dollars. It is more likely that these custom ASICs will be
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by smokel 3mo ago
There's an interesting easter egg in semantic.cpp, line 77: if (CheckWord(words, "OXio")) { Apparently, if your text contains the word "OXio", it triggers the following riddle: What's round on the ends
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by smokel 3mo ago
Some things do indeed improve, but some other things require a massive effort that no hobbyist or small company can make happen. This is most obvious in places where a lot of coordination is required, for example in supporting proper color
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by smokel 3mo ago
It's probably helpful in this discussion to make a difference between two definitions of reasoning: 1. phenomenal reasoning, requiring consciousness and subjective experience 2. functional reasoning, transforming premises into conclusi
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by smokel 3mo ago
There are very few sites such as Hacker News around. Looking for one that is similar in quality, but with a slightly different focus is going to be disappointing. Perhaps it helps to consider why you'd exactly want this? You may be b
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by smokel 3mo ago
for x in 1611.02731 1511.06391 1811.06965 1512.03385 1511.07122 1704.01212 1409.2329 1512.02595 1706.01427 1410.5401 1806.01822 1706.03762 1409.0473 1506.03134 2001.08361 1405.6903 1603.05027 math/0406077; do curl -fL https:/
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by smokel 3mo ago
The GitHub page clearly states that it is reverse engineered. Even if you rewrite an article in your own words, you cannot claim copyright for that. At least, not to my knowledge.
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by smokel 3mo ago
You cannot claim authorship of something that you were not even allowed to take in the first place. How would you then allow rights to somebody else? Seems pretty obvious to me.
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by smokel 3mo ago
It does make a difference. If this text was generated by the LLM, then by those same terms you are allowed to publish the data. But given that it is reverse engineered, you are not allowed to do so. Note that even in the normal case, th
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by smokel 3mo ago
Can't have a discussion on art and cats without mentioning Louis Wain [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain
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by smokel 3mo ago
If this is regular output of the LLM, I'm not sure, but given that the author proclaims that this is reverse engineered, then they are not allowed to redistribute it under their own license terms. The terms of service are also pretty
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by smokel 3mo ago
> Open source, MIT licensed. I don't think that is how copyright licensing works.
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by smokel 3mo ago
Most interesting things in software engineering are (laughably) subjective. Just check out any conversation on dynamic vs static typing, talk to a Rust zealot, or ask a backend engineer if microservices were a mistake. It's unfortunate
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by smokel 3mo ago
It is a Python thing, in the sense that it is Python-inspired: > design-wise copy the Python standard library's APIs whenever possible [1] [1] https://github.com/jpakkane/pystd
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by smokel 4mo ago
This may have been the case one year ago, but with contemporary models such as Opus, I run into this less often.
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by smokel 4mo ago
I don't buy the article's title "Why big AI labs are hiring so many philosophers". They probably just hire one or two, and hundreds of software engineers. I always found it somewhat annoying that a philosophy study woul
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by smokel 4mo ago
> solve our hardest math problems We're not quite there yet :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_m...
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by smokel 4mo ago
Being able to drive a car properly also depends on having the right exploration-exploitation balance. A three-year-old is likely to explore too much in a situation where mistakes can be dangerous. This requires not only knowledge, but also

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